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Dorothy Iannone: You Who Read Me With Passion Now Must Forever Be My Friends

Published by Siglio.
Edited by Lisa Pearson. Text by Trinie Dalton.

Iannone’s image–text works celebrate a joyful sexuality and spirituality

PUBLISHER
Siglio

BOOK FORMAT
Paperback, 7.25 x 9 in. / 320 pgs / 95 color / 210 bw.

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Pub Date 11/30/2014
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ISBN 9781938221071 TRADE
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Jake Chapman: The Marriage of Reason & Squalor

Published by FUEL Publishing.

In his fiction debut, the notorious British artist Jake Chapman satirizes the standard paperback romance novel in his own inimitable way, slashing the genre down to bare bones and creating a disfigured version from the remains. The Marriage of Reason & Squalor is a corollary to the visual work for which Jake Chapman, in collaboration with his brother Dinos, is best known. The novel opens when our heroine, Chlamydia Love, is gifted a desert island by her fiancée, but develops a fascination with its rightful owner, the devilishly unattractive writer Helmut Mandragorass, instead. A battle begins over the ownership of the island and, ultimately, Chlamydia's love. Included as an insert is Mandragorass' opus Come Hell or High Water, along with a number of actual rejection letters sent to Mandragorass/Chapman from publishers who perhaps should have known better. Also featured are 20 limited edition color prints by Chapman--in the guise of Chlamydia Love

PUBLISHER
FUEL Publishing

BOOK FORMAT
Paperback, 5 x 7.75 in. / 308 pgs / 24 color.

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Pub Date 11/1/2008
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Catalog: FALL 2008 p. 53   

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ISBN 9780955862007 TRADE
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Jacob Holdt's America: Faith, Hope and Love

Published by Louisiana Museum of Modern Art.
Text by Sandra Ruffin, Erik Steffensen, Geoff Dyer. Interview by Mette Markus.

Danish photographer Jacob Holdt is internationally revered for his vision of America, as portrayed in classic volumes like American Pictures and United States 1970-1975. It is a vision which has inspired many, both in its extremity (the director Lars von Trier is reputedly a fan) and in its tenacity. Holdt arrived in the U.S. in the early 70s with almost no money, and hitchhiked all over the U.S., earning a living by selling blood, and proceeded to build an amazing portrait of the margins of America over the course of his 100,000-mile journey. This monograph continues Holdt's fascination with American society, with a portfolio of photographs from the 70s to the present. Holdt's photographs document the social realities of the people he travels with, spanning the demographic from poor families to millionaires, junkies and even members of the Ku Klux Klan.

PUBLISHER
Louisiana Museum of Modern Art

BOOK FORMAT
Paperback, 9.75 x 10.75 in. / 152 pgs / illustrated throughout.

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Pub Date 2/28/2010
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Catalog: FALL 2009 p. 67   

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ISBN 9788791607677 TRADE
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Dieter Roth & Dorothy Iannone

Published by Holzwarth Publications.
Essays by Dietmar Elger, Oliver Koerner von Gustorf and Bernadette Walter. Interview by Dirk Dobke with Dorothy Iannone.

ìDeep in the heart of my loneliness, I think of the art of my lioness.î German Fluxus artist Dieter Rothís enigmatic (and sometimes singsong) mail art for his lover, the artist Dorothy Iannone, was matched only by her responses and the sexually loaded non-mailable art she made featuring the two of them. Roth and Iannone met in 1967, broke up in 1974, and remained friends and lively correspondents until Rothís death. He painted over and dimmed the subjects of postcard photos to make himself the central figure; she needed no prompting to cast him in a starring role in her autobiographically based oeuvre. From ìmy dear old baby, will you please bring this check to the bank so we have some money when I come back,î to ìremember me?î they were a fascinating couple; now readers can encounter that passion themselves.

PUBLISHER
Holzwarth Publications

BOOK FORMAT
Hardcover, 8.75 x 10.75 in. / 226 pgs / 248 color.

PUBLISHING STATUS
Pub Date 3/1/2006
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Catalog: SPRING 2006 p. 103   

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ISBN 9783935567275 FLAT40
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Daniel Schumann: International Orange

Published by Kerber.
Edited by Daniel Schumann, Christof Kerber.

In 2011, having been awarded a Fulbright, German photographer Daniel Schumann (born 1981) moved to San Francisco to start a masters degree in photography. He was immediately taken by the city, and fell in love with the diversity and openness of its inhabitants. In International Orange, Schumann portrays same-sex families and couples living and working in San Francisco. The work originated from the artist’s desire to express the importance of the metropolis for the gay rights movement, while also examining the theme of family from a new perspective--an examination he had already begun in his previous book, Princesses and Football Stars. Through his portraits, Schumann’s project reveals the remarkable ease with which heterosexual and homosexual families live together and coexist in San Francisco. International Orange is a declaration of love for the city, its social freedom and its citizens.

PUBLISHER
Kerber

BOOK FORMAT
Paperback, 8.25 x 10.25 in. / 176 pgs / 61 color.

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Pub Date 3/31/2014
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Catalog: SPRING 2014 p. 105   

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Frida & Diego: Passion, Politics and Painting

Published by Art Gallery of Ontario/High Museum of Art Atlanta.
Edited by Dot Tuer, Elliott King.

Frida Kahlo (1907–1954) and Diego Rivera’s (1886–1957) legendary passion for each other and for Mexico’s revolutionary culture during the 1920s and 1930s have made them among the twentieth century’s most famous artists. During their life together as a married couple, Rivera achieved prominence as a muralist artist, while Kahlo’s intimate paintings were embraced by the Surrealist movement and the Mexican art world--but neither were especially well known in the broader context of art and modernism. After their deaths in the 1950s, important retrospectives of Kahlo’s work enshrined her as one of the most significant women artists of the twentieth century, somewhat eclipsing Rivera’s international fame as Mexico’s greatest muralist painter. Frida & Diego: Passion, Politics and Painting offers a new perspective on their artistic significance for the twenty-first century, one that shows how their paintings reflect both the dramatic story of their lives together and their artistic commitment to the transformative political and cultural values of post-revolutionary Mexico. Frida & Diego features newly photographed color reproductions of 75 paintings and works on paper by both Kahlo and Rivera, rarely reproduced archival photographs and new biographical information on the couple assembled by scholar Dot Tuer. It is published on the occasion of an exhibition assembled from three distinguished Mexican private collections on Mexican art, and presented at the Art Gallery of Ontario and the High Museum of Art Atlanta.

PUBLISHER
Art Gallery of Ontario/High Museum of Art Atlanta

BOOK FORMAT
Clth, 8.25 x 10.25 in. / 96 pgs / 80 color.

PUBLISHING STATUS
Pub Date 1/31/2013
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Kelli Connell: Double Life

Published by Decode Books.
Text by Susan Bright. Interview by Dawoud Bey.

The portraits of Kelli Connell (born 1974) appear to document a relationship between two women. Their idiom looks familiar: a young couple caught up in everyday moments of pleasure and reflection--a picnic in the park, playing pool in a bar, taking a bubble bath together. The first flicker of unease comes as soon as the viewer registers the similarity of the two subjects, who seem to be twins--and incestuous twins at that. In fact, Connell has photographed the same model portraying both of the women and then digitally combined the two images so seamlessly that not a trace remains of their construction. Connell has been at the forefront of artists using digital technologies for the past decade, but her art is not about Photoshop, and the photographs in Double Life extend far beyond their duplicity into larger and more complex issues of identity and visual rhetoric. Connell has a canny eye for the documentary look, as she tells an interviewer: “I tried to infuse my images with the sorts of subtle portrait techniques that made for powerful documentary photos, hoping to figure out how to make my work look more like true documentation of two women in a scene, even though they have never been together at the same time.”

PUBLISHER
Decode Books

BOOK FORMAT
Clth, 12.25 x 9.75 in. / 80 pgs / 36 color.

PUBLISHING STATUS
Pub Date 8/31/2011
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Ellen Jong: Getting To Know My Husband's Cock

Published by Ellen Jong.
Foreword by Cindy Gallop. Text by Ellen Jong.

American photographer Ellen Jong (born 1976) describes Getting To Know My Husband's Cock as “a love song in photographs” and “a journey in self-discovery that informs a newfound woman.” In her familiar snapshot style, Jong photographs her husband up close and personal, in all states of dress, tumescence and indeed consciousness.

PUBLISHER
Ellen Jong

BOOK FORMAT
Paperback, 6.25 x 9 in. / 150 pgs / 71 color.

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Pub Date 7/31/2011
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The Journeys of Casanova

Published by Hatje Cantz.
Text by Marco Carminati.

Having lived in cities including Vienna, Paris, Rome, London, Berlin, St. Petersburg and Madrid, Giacomo Casanova (1725–1796) could be described as the first cosmopolitan. On his tireless jaunts through eighteenth-century Europe, he not only encountered the beautiful and erotic but also powerful figures and artists of his time. Whether Voltaire, Benjamin Franklin, Frederick the Great, Johann Joachim Winckelmann, or (probably) even Mozart, Casanova knew them all. This large-format illustrated volume follows in the footsteps of the well-known libertine and couples passages from his memoirs, remarkable in so many aspects, with magnificent early photographs and charming hand-colored book illustrations. Although it was not until nearly a century later that photography's first pioneers roamed the alleys of Venice or attempted to capture the flair of Paris, these contemporary documents give an impression of the wonders that the great seducer encountered on his Grand Tour.

PUBLISHER
Hatje Cantz

BOOK FORMAT
Hardcover, 13 x 19 in. / 128 pgs / 50 color.

PUBLISHING STATUS
Pub Date 11/30/2014
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Catalog: FALL 2014 p. 75   

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